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Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield .
Fred Lawrence Whipple (Red Oak, 5 novembre 1906 – Cambridge, 30 agosto 2004) è stato un astronomo statunitense. È ricordato per aver definito, dopo lunghi studi che ne misero in evidenza la composizione, le comete come palle di neve sporche , definizione ancora usata per descrivere tali corpi celesti.
Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple, was one of the last giants of 20th century astronomy. He was Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard University and a Senior Physicist at SAO.
3 nov 2004 · A founding father of modern planetary science. Fred Whipple died on 30 August, two months shy of his ninety-eighth birthday. The breadth of his published research, from 1927 to 2000,...
- Donald K. Yeomans, Joseph Veverka
- 2004
August 30, 2004. Raised on an Iowa farm, Fred Whipple graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then helped compute the first orbit of newly-discovered Pluto while a graduate student under Armin O. Leuschner at the University of California, Berkeley.
31 ago 2004 · Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906 – 2004) Best known for his revolutionary ideas about comets, Whipple touched on a variety of fields in his long career. By Francis Reddy | Published: August 31,...
Fred Whipple, one of the founding fathers of planetary science, died on August 30, 2004 just two months shy of his 98th birthday. The breadth of Fred's published research from 1927 through 2000 is quite extraordinary.
